Meanings of discomfort and fussy-irritable in infant pain assessment

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 255-263

  Fuller, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; NEWBORN; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PAIN; PEDIATRIC NURSING; SEMANTICS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRRITABLE MOOD; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PAIN; PEDIATRIC NURSING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030279815     PISSN: 08915245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5245(96)90051-6     Document Type: Article

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